Roy Harper at the Festival Hall, SE1

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Currently enjoying an autumnal career resurgence that began around his 70th birthday two years ago, Roy Harper drew a devoted and highly vocal crowd to London on Tuesday. Looking tanned and youthful, despite his silver beard and wizardy white hair, the cult Britfolk veteran was accompanied by an eight-piece mini-orchestra and by Jonathan Wilson, an LA-based producer and multi-instrumentalist who is half the singer’s age. Wilson joins a long list of Harper’s musical collaborators that includes Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Pete Townshend and Joanna Newsom.

The tracks from Harper’s new album,
Man and Myth
, offered tender finger-picking ruminations on lost